USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Joint Educational Project News

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  JEP Celebrates 35th Year Serving Students and Community

  March 1, 2007

    Now in its 35th year, the College’s Joint Educational Project (JEP) has changed the lives of thousands of people — student volunteers and those they help. A nationally recognized center for community… more>

  categories: undergraduate, joint educational project

  tags: community service, jep, volunteer

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  U.S. News Ranks USC’s JEP Program

  July 12, 2006

    A new set of college rankings released this month by U.S. News & World Report featured USC on its list of Top College Academic Programs in Service Learning. The school was recognized primarily for its 35-year-old… more>

  categories: joint educational project

  tags: community service, jep, service learning

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  The Heart and Soul of Medicine

  July 1, 2006

  Fabric-shop seamstress Maricela Parra developed throbbing neck pains working long hours hunched over a sewing machine. When she tried to tell her doctor about it, she hit a barrier. “Tengo mucho dolor,” Parra, 33,… more>

  categories: undergraduate, joint educational project

  tags: doctors, medicine, volunteer

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  Young Men, Big Dreams

  July 1, 2006

  Although standing in front of a chalkboard, former National Football League player Reggie Grant sounded as if posed in front of a scoreboard, issuing a command on a playing field. “To make it into the NFL, you have to… more>

  categories: undergraduate, joint educational project

  tags: football, nfl, speaker

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  Helping Teens in Turn-Around

  June 1, 2006

  Arms crossed and looking contemplative, Mariela Membreno recalled the day police arrived at her high school and hauled her off to jail. “I was walking in the hall and the cops came up to me,” said the 17-year-old… more>

  categories: joint educational project

  tags: mentorship, tutoring, volunteer

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  A Trojan Farewell

  June 1, 2006

  A few hundred people packed Town and Gown Monday to honor and bid farewell to Joseph Aoun, the 19th dean of the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences whose career at USC spanned a quarter century. “I look at our life… more>

  categories: joint educational project

  tags: aoun, dean, farewell

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  Star Service for Peace

  July 1, 2005

  Actor and student America Ferrera on volunteering By Pamela J. Johnson July 2005 America Ferrera had been volunteering inside the Norwood Street Elementary School classroom for months before a third-grader timidly approached… more>

  categories: undergraduate, joint educational project

  tags: international relations, peace games, volunteer

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  Peace Games

  July 1, 2005

  USC Joint Education Project Makes a Difference By Pamela J. Johnson July 2005 At the playground at Norwood Street Elementary School, three second-graders begin squabbling, each certain he is the rightful owner of a wildly… more>

  categories: joint educational project

  tags: jep, peace games

• Machine Shop Gives 100 Percent

  February 1, 2005

  There may be no free lunches in this world, but recently members of USC College’s natural sciences machine shop did enjoy a meal on the Dean’s dime. USC College Dean Joseph Aoun picked up the lunch tab for… more>

  categories: joint educational project

  tags: community, fundraiser, good neighbors campaign

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  Giving Back… and Then Again

  July 1, 2004

  By Kaitlin SolimineJuly 2004 “It’s come full circle,” says USC College alumna Elda Pech as she sits in her office at L.A. Unified School District’s Magnolia Elementary School where she is a data coach… more>

  categories: joint educational project

  tags: community service, jep, volunteer